Strategic Finance Lead AI

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

San Francisco, United States
About Perplexity

Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.

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Candidate Availability

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About the Role

You will lead financial analysis for inference and model spend. You will build product-margin and cost forecasts, reconcile revenue and serving costs from production data, analyze model-provider pricing and cost drivers, and assess pricing, packaging, and model-deployment decisions. You will translate AI usage and serving-cost dynamics into financial frameworks and clear decision support.

Requirements

  • Analytical and financial operating-modeling skills
  • Problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
  • Experience communicating financial information to non-finance audiences
  • Commercial judgment in pricing, packaging, discounting, growth, and margin
  • Experience partnering with technical and product teams
  • Background in AI, machine learning, or consumption-based business models

Responsibilities

  • Lead budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial planning for inference and model spend
  • Build and maintain product-margin models that reconcile revenue, serving costs, and gross margin
  • Analyze model provider contracts, pricing structures, and cost drivers
  • Own financial analysis for cost per request, margin by product and tier, and customer and feature economics
  • Develop consolidated model-cost forecasts from product roadmaps and model transitions
  • Analyze the margin effects of pricing, packaging, and model-deployment decisions
  • Translate usage and serving-cost dynamics into financial frameworks

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness benefits
  • Commuter accounts
  • Dependent care accounts
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